Cerasuolo Night Party 2013 – COS

Etna wine – Part 2

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Focus wine shares pictures from the page of Merano Wine Festival and is sunk in thoughts regarding Christmas and wine… Merry Red and White Christmas to all ! At Christmas remember: Wine drinkers make grape lovers! Don’t drink and drive – you may spill your wine! ( this fun staff comes from www.thewineandvine.com) Some ideas for Christmas presents:...

Wine glass is an important instrument for tasting wine! The shape of the glass and the material it is made of is very important as they can influence our perception of wine. The wine glass is normally made of a base/foot, stem and the bowl while stem-less glasses are also becoming popular. The best glass for tasting wine should be transparent with no painted or cut decorations as this could impede the appreciation of its color. The main rule is to use bigger glasses (the bigger the better to increase the rate of oxidation) for red wines and smaller glasses for white wines. The proper way of grasping the...

The first Etna sparkling wine to have obtained the DOC recognition all ready to celebrate New Years Eve of 2013! It is a single varietal wine- made entirely of Nerello Mascalese, in rosè, méthode champenoise. The harvest is that of 2011. The prise de mousse of 20 months, dégorgement December 2013. The result is a brut rosè, with an alcoholic gradation of 12°. The name of the ‘spumante’ is that of the winery which produced it: La Gelsomina, located on the north east slopes of Etna. A young winery owned by Maria Colombo Adalgisa and Alfio Turrisi, producing around 25000 bottles of wine per year of which 1300 of Etna DOC Brut Rosè....

It is important that the wine drinkers do some workout in between drinking times. In wintertime and with age those ’empty’ wine calories seem to show immediately on our figures unless we do so. Here are some simple ideas of how to practice directly in the cellar, without the need to go to the gym or jog around. The coolest thing about it is that you can actually exercise without necessarily having to stop drinking! Enjoy you workout and enjoy your...

Some of the best producers of wines, a sommelier and an enologist led a fascinating and entertaining discussion today in front of a public that came to learn something about the red wines of Etna. This meeting is a second edition of a series that are planned also for the future to bring the knowledge about a gold medal product of Etna to the general public. As the enologist Pietro di Giovanni was trying to concise the information about the production of the red wines on the unique and fascinating territory of Etna volcano, Camillo Privitera, the president of Italian Sommelier Association in Sicily and the editor of EnoNews.it...